VP_SRE (Only from Investment Bank or Product Company)

12+ Years of Experience.

Looking for SRE Role

 Help define, drive and implement the SRE strategy

 Promote an “Automate-first” culture in operating services, through the reduction of toil

 Develop methodologies and strategies for identification of toil-heavy and inefficient

processes, and for the automation and elimination of toil, delay and redundancy in such

processes.

 Assist in developing engineering and operational service metrics with actionable plans to

improve operational efficiency, enhance service quality/SLA, and optimize delivery

 Working with all parties, develop and implement SLOs for critical services

 Define monitoring strategy with Engineering and implement appropriate capabilities

 Design and implement reliability improvements

 Conduct capacity planning

 Perform chaos engineering exercises

 Lead architectural reviews for reliability

 Drive continuous improvement from incidents

 Contribute to the Test and Deployment processes, ensuring that they are as reliable and

automated as possible

Skills and qualifications

 A bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, information systems, or a related field,

or equivalent work experience

 Hands on SRE Practitioner with 5+ years working experience in SRE role.

 Practical experience defining and implementing Service Level Objectives, and operating to

Error Budgets

 Have implemented and operated monitoring and observability technologies for a wide range

of enterprise-grade Production systems.

 Experience in a corporate software development lifecycle methodology. Some experience

implementing gitops a plus

 Demonstrates a strong understanding of how technical systems work and interact

 Strong analytical skills and a solid understanding of all critical Production Support processes

 2+ years of experience with one/more public/private cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure etc.).

Knowledge Required

 Comprehensive understanding of SRE principles and ability to evangelise

 Working knowledge of modern observability tooling, including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus,

Grafana, and associated projects

 Experience of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and design

 Extensive knowledge of Configuration Management Solutions such as Ansible, Chef or

Puppet